topic Re: People Finder in Alfresco Archive

People Finder

gmurphy — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 09:40:00 GMT

Folks,When I use the People Finder in share and for example search for Ann Murphy I get all the people with the term Ann e.g. Ann, Anne, Annette and all the Murphy results.The question I have is it possible to use the People Finder and use a term and get just Ann Murphy or get the exact term Ann Mur

Re: People Finder

mikeh — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 11:39:26 GMT

Yes, this has been improved in v3.4 so it works as you would expect.

Thanks,
Mike

Re: People Finder

gmurphy — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 14:44:06 GMT

Mike,

I have 3.4 beta so I will test and see.

Thanks,

Gerald

Re: People Finder

gmurphy — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 16:37:09 GMT

Mike,

I tried 3.4 beta and found that if I type Ann Murphy with a space between I got nothing at all unlike 3.2 where I would get all the names beginning with Ann and all the Murphy results as well. But if I type in the username amurphy, Ann.Murphy or Anne.Murphy I just get the 1 correct result.

If I searched for Murphy got all Murphys

Murphy, Ann got nothing

"Ann Murphy" got an error

Search Ann got all users beginning with Ann

This issue I find here is that I cannot search for Ann Murphy as before and get results seem not to want a space, is there a way around this as we could search by username but there usernames in our organisation often bear little relevance to the persons name e.g. Sean Kennedy could be seken01 and so the other users in share will often not know this and when they type in Sean Kennedy they get nothing with 3.4 and if they type in Just Sean or Kennedy on there own they will have to browse though multiple users to get the person they want and that’s a bit inconvenient.

The idle situation would be to type in Firstname Lastname e.g.Ann Murphy and have the exact match as the first result followed by the next relevant result e.g. Anne Murphy. Am I missing something or is it possible for us to make this happen.

Thanks Again

Gerald

Re: People Finder

mikeh — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 19:42:15 GMT

Do you see the version of the People Finder with the large help text underneath? If not, then it'll be in the next release (currently Community 3.4.b, which might become 3.4 Enterprise - I'm not 100% sure on that)

Thanks,
Mike

Re: People Finder

gmurphy — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 08:35:55 GMT

Mike,

The version I have does not have the help text underneath. Hope it will be in the next release as it woeld be very useful.

Gerald

Re: People Finder

icpeanuts — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 20:47:16 GMT

Is there anyway to just show everyone when I do a People Search?